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...midsummer doldrums, with most of the A-budget productions as drab as the overcast sky and as treacly as its sunlight, some brisk, modest B pictures are brightening the outlook considerably. Last spring's rapid-fire Dillinger (Monogram), made at a cost of $145,000, has already grossed $900,000. Last fall's vivid When Strangers Marry (Monogram) is less of a moneymaker but one of the best of the Bs. By last week, cinemaddicts were talking up two more good new ones...
...friend Joseph E. Davies were Truman's mainstays at the big table. Thirty or more experts sat at little tables around the room. Churchill, while he was there, often consulted Attlee. When he returned from London, Attlee had less to say than Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Truman, a brisk and affable chairman, did not wander from the point as Roosevelt used to do. Some correspondents said that Stalin looked old and tired. But returning U.S. delegates said that Uncle Joe never looked better...
...When brisk, brash Larry MacPhail took over the New York Yankees last winter, newshawks asked: "How will McCarthy feel?" Last week Joe McCarthy felt sick...
From such original sources as Edward Winslow (the Pilgrim's chief spokesman) and Governor William Bradford, a Denver-born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...
Clinics & Visits. When would-be novelist Harriet Hassell came to him for help in 1937, brisk Professor Strode, no novelist himself, remarked skeptically: "I don't believe a person can be taught to write a novel"-then added: "but we'll see what happens.'" The result, Rachel's Children, went into four printings. Since then Hudson Strode, a full professor at Alabama since 1924 (specialty: Shakespeare) has been busy teaching students to write about what they know...